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If Russia can be said to have interfered in the 2016 election, a literal cabal (their words not mine) certainly ‘interfered’ in 2020. https://time.com/5936036/
by whiddershins 4y ago
If Russia can be said to have interfered in the 2016 election, a literal cabal (their words not mine) certainly ‘interfered’ in 2020.
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/ https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
- ceejayoz 4y ago> They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. An information campaign and a disinformation campaign are hardly the same.
- standardUser 4y agoDomestic groups and individuals are expected to be involved in elections. Foreign ones, by law, are not. An obvious difference and I doubt you're unaware of it.
- babypuncher 4y agoProviding voters with accurate information about how and where they can cast their ballot is not the same as buying ad space on Facebook to run ads with doctored images and outright false information.
- mgkimsal 4y ago> false information Can we normalize just saying "lies" when things are lies?
- elliekelly 4y agoThe Intercept published an interesting (and, I suspect, related) article[1] today about the chamber of commerce no longer being the darling of the GOP. Retribution for not loyally supporting the big election lie, perhaps? [1]https://theintercept.com/2022/09/19/house-republicans-chamber-commerce/ https://theintercept.com/2022/09/19/house-republicans-chambe...